Changing strategic capacities: Union amalgamations in Canada and australia

The Future of Trade Unionism: International Perspectives on Emerging Union Structures

Volumn , Issue , 2019, Pages 131-148

  Yates, Charlotte ^a   Ewer, Peter ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Union Research Centre on Organisation and Technology   (Australia)

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EID: 85082254702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429435652-10     Document Type: Chapter

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